“Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.” WholeFactsAbilityConceptsHeightDimensionsReplaced Book:The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner Source: The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner
“Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.” ProblemValuesCultureAbilityProductsSolve Author:Howard Gardner
“The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.” ProblemAbilityProductsSolveSettingSettings Book:Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century Source: Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century
“Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori” ChildrenYoungAbilityCuttingEventsAppreciateRealmsLinksCategoriesCaptureParallelsYoung Children Author:Howard Gardner
“We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.” WayShouldChildrenDifferentHelpingNaturalAbilitySucceedMore TimeRankingCompetencies Author:Howard Gardner
“Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.” IfsWellsImportantUseAbilityStorytellingNarrative Author:Howard Gardner
